Front-End Web Designer Learning Path
Recommended Order of Courses for the Best Learning Path
Web Design Courses
Course Duration: 2 Days
This course will provide you with sufficient knowledge to create a simple blog and website using WordPress. We’ll take you through the initial concepts before explaining how to set up an account on wordpress.com and create a new site from scratch. Once your site has been setup, we’ll take you through the many WordPress settings and options before creating pages and posts, drafting and publishing, uploading images and formatting your content with some simple HTML and CSS. We’ll then explain how to select and activate a theme, adjust any available options, set menu items and ensure the site is optimised for search engine results.
Design Technique Courses
Course Duration: 5 Days
- Use advanced retouching and manipulation techniques
- Improve the tonality and contrast of an image using curves and levels
- Work with masks and blending effects to create sophisticated compositions
- Use colour profiles to create a consistent and reliable colour workflow
- Prepare artwork for print, web and video
- Take the Adobe Certified Associate Exam and gain ACA status
Course Duration: 2 Days
- Remove red eye, blemishes, scratches, etc. using various retouching techniques
- Improve image colours and adjust contrast and brightness
- Create simple compositions by blending images together
- Add text and modify type settings in your designs
- Output artwork for web, print or video
Course Duration: 3 Days
- Use advanced retouching and manipulation techniques
- Improve the tonality and contrast of an image using curves and levels
- Work with masks and blending effects to create sophisticated compositions
- Use colour profiles to create a consistent and reliable colour workflow
- Prepare artwork for print, web and video
- Take the Adobe Certified Professional Exam and gain ACA status
- This course covers the curriculum for our Beginner, Intermediate & Advanced courses
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- Make use of the Camera RAW plugin to handle RAW and HDR images
- Create and combine 3D objects from Photoshop layers
- Import and paint 3D objects made in other applications
- Animate layers and edit video layers in Photoshop
- Undertake studio and advanced techniques
- Enhance your workflow with advanced shortcuts batch processes and actions
- and more
Course Duration: 5 Days
By the end of this course, you will be able to
- Draw and understand Bezier curves
- The root of drawing in Illustrator
- Create a logo using simple shapes
- Accurately place and measure objects in the Illustration window
- Trace and colour your hand drawn artwork with Live Trace
- Live Paint and Live Colour
- Save illustrations for both print and web purposes
- Further adjust Bezier curves by creating Compound paths
- Create Custom Brushes and various Graphic Styles
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Course Duration: 2 Days
Setting up Illustrator projects
- Identify project requirements
- Establish target audience and needs
- Define media format and publishing requirements
User interface
- Identify user interface elements
- Create and select Workspaces
- Navigate and zoom documents
- And more
Course Duration: 3 Days
By the end of this course, you will be able to
- Further, adjust Bezier curves by creating Compound paths
- Create Custom Brushes and various Graphic Style
- Work with Transparency and other raster effects like drop shadows
- Accurately adjust type in an artwork
- Prepare documents for composite and commercial printing
- Enhance the workflow
- Integration of Illustrator with the rest of Creative Suite
- You will also be prepared for and take the Adobe Certified Associate (ACA) exam
By the end of this course, you will be able to
- Optimise artwork for print and web
- Create and customise graphs
- Work with blends to create stunning effects
- Create 3D artwork using Illustrators 3D engine!
- Improve workflow within Adobe applications
- and more
- Introduction to the importance of Infographics
- An overview of the history of Infographics, what they are and how they should be used
- Examples of good and bad Infographics
- A look at the many types of elements to include in an Infographic and when to use them (charts, timelines, graphs, bubble graphs, pictographs etc.)
- Do I need an infographic?
- Analyzing your data
- Finding and telling the story
- The 5W’s and how they work in an infographic
- The design process
- Setting up your wireframe
- Using psychology in your design
- Creating icons or sourcing ready-made graphics
- Design tips and tricks using Adobe Illustrator
This course contains the full curriculum of
- Illustrator: Beginner
- Illustrator: Intermediate
- Illustrator: Advanced
- Adobe Illustrator Certification Exam
Course Duration: 1 Day
From books, magazines and marketing materials, to social media templates, website mockups and other projects, this next-generation publishing app gives you the power to combine your images, graphics and text to make beautiful layouts ready for publication.
Course Duration: 2 Days
Graphic designers or people transitioning into a design job or taking on design responsibilities who need to use illustrate artwork and create logos, advertisements or other graphic documents.
Course Duration: 2 Days
No previous working experience with this application is necessary. We will start from the very basics by introducing you to the softwares interface, workspace, tools, best practices and the correct workflow process. You should have a basic understanding of your computer's operating system. For example, you should know how to launch an application, create and save files.
Course Duration: 5 Days
Maximise your productivity with Adobe Creative Suite Production Premium software, the total post-production solution available for both Mac and Windows. Tighter-than-ever integration between Adobe’s all-new video, audio and design tools. Learn the basics and much more of After Effects and Premiere Pro all just 5 days.
Corse Duration: 6 Days
This course covers the full curriculum of
- Photoshop: Beginner
- InDesign: Beginner
- Illustrator: Beginner
- Edit & retouch photos
- Prepare & publish documents for screen or print
- Create Illustrations
By the end of this course, you will be able to
- Build and grow strategic partnerships for your business
- Prepare UX portfolio with properly framed documentation
- A clear understanding of step by step product building processes
- In-depth knowledge of all UX roles and hence understanding where you fit the best in UX field and the responsibility of the UX lead
- Choose an effective language to use in challenging conversations
- Demonstrate your objectively proven skills in user experience teams and agencies – Become a successful and competitive specialist in fast-growing UX market
- Gain the skills of the highly qualified researcher or tester
- Increases business conversions and market shares with a good UX
- Achieve professional competence to solve different kinds of issues
- Confidently manage UX processes by proven, user-centred design framework based on the usability standard ISO 9241-210
- Be prepared for and take the BCS UX Certified exam
Course Duration: Bespoke - 1-day Private Class
- Create artboards & design files
- Insert text, images, & graphic elements
- Apply graphic effects
- Create & edit repeat grids
- Create & use symbols
- Export web assets: SVG, PNG, & PDF
- Turn a design into a clickable prototype
- And more
By the end of this course, you will be able to
- Plan, manage and conduct UX research
- Create a research plan
- Choose appropriate research methods
- Develop a question pool
- Recruit and select participants
- Record, document and present research findings
Development Courses
Course Duration: 5 Days
In addition to learning about HTML5 and CSS coding, you will learn how to use HTML5 Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) to extend the functionality of Web pages, such as geolocation, drag-and-drop, canvas, and offline Web applications.
You will learn basic JavaScript coding, and use HTML5 APIs (application programming interfaces) to extend the functionality of Web pages with modern features such as geolocation, drag-and-drop, canvas and offline Web applications. In addition, you will learn techniques for code validation and testing, form creation, inline form field validation, and mobile design for browsers and apps, including Responsive Web Design (RWD).
Course Duration: 2 Days
This course covers:
- Introduction to HTML
- Basic Page Structure
- Formatting Page Content
- Structuring Content
- Creating Links, Lists
- Working with images
- Tables in HTML5
- Controlling Styling
- Basic Scripting
Imagine taking your knowledge of HTML to the next level with live, online, instructor-led training through Academy Class. Learn HTML5 & CSS3 and learn the basics of HTML syntax will be explained, and with the help of Dreamweaver, the HTML file will be cleaned up and tweaked so the HTML text matches the design. We encourage everybody to bring their designs for the second day as the course provides the chance to create a finished HTML e-mail from them.
This is a bespoke course, please contact us for dates
- HTML Beginner Class – 3 days
- HTML Intermediate Class – 2 days
- CSS Beginner – 3 days
- CSS Intermediate – 2 days
- Javascript Beginner – 3 days
- Jquery Intermediate – 2 days
- Animate Beginner – 2 days
- HTML5/CSS3 Beginner
- HTML5/CSS3 Intermediate
- JavaScript Beginner
- JavaScript Intermediate
Course Duration: 5 Days
Javascript Course London Certification
What you will learn
- Understand the JavaScript language
- Understand the Document Object Model and how it is used in JavaScript
- How to detect and respond to user actions
- Alter, show, hide and move objects on a web page
- Check information inputted into a form
- How to use CSS (Cascading Stylesheets)
- How to make JavaScript cross-browser compatible
- Transform HTML web pages into interactive
- Cross-browser web pages with cool cross-browser animations and user-intuitive functionality
You will learn how to use JavaScript to communicate with users, modify the Document Object Model (DOM), control program flow, validate forms, animate images, create cookies, change XHTML on the fly, and communicate with databases.
By the end of this course, you will understand and use the most popular applications of JavaScript.